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Politics : New FADG. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kumar who wrote (1161)	5/31/2007 3:25:13 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4152

Kumar, I'm confused. Hawkmoon wrote (to another poster); "But the future of Iraq lies in it's children. And when the going got tough in Iraq and I just couldn't figure out why people couldn't learn to forgive one another for past wrongs they've committed/suffered, I would remind myself that the CHILDREN have a right to grow up in a country that is better than the ones their parents were forced to live in. So please Whiffle, don't tell me your lofty words.. I don't want to hear them. Tell those children why you believe they aren't worth defending." I replied with an article addressing the plight of the children. The crux of the article was: "The report blamed the horrific decline in infant and child health since the invasion on the steadily worsening living conditions for the Iraqi population as a whole, including "electricity shortages, insufficient clean water, deteriorating health services and soaring inflation." This overall destruction of basic social infrastructure unleashed by the US invasion and occupation has been translated into a horrendous decline in child health. "Only 35 percent of Iraqi children are fully immunized, and more than one-fifth (21 percent) are severely or moderately stunted" as a result of malnutrition, the study found....." You replied to my post with a cryptic cite to another Hawkmoon post where he wrote: "Thanks Kumar.. Good to see a disciplined FADG thread back up.. Hopefully we can all do our part to educate, inform, and honestly debate current and future Foreign Policy.. IMO, discussing past Foreign Policy decisions, except as an example to assist us in formulating new Foreign Policy, should be minimized. This is especially true for Iraq. We can't avoid discussing the "elephant in the living room", but we can direct our focus on ideas that might signify a current/future direction that is, or should be, taken." What was your point? If you thought the subject was inappropriate, why not post to Hawkmoon who intitiated the discussion instead of posting to those of us who followed it up? And if you thought it was inappropriate, what was your reasoning? I'd like to know because I'm beginning to wonder why the single post in the last 50 posts here that isn't from a mild to markedly rabid conservative is from Wharf Rat, and that post was his "goodbye" post. Was I being warned? Ed